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10 Best Graduation Quotes

All that hard work has finally paid off; it’s time to throw the graduation caps up in the air! Here are the ten best graduation quotes that are especially poignant at this important juncture of your life. 1. The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything; the young know everything.” – Oscar Wilde When ...

Wonder Woman: Personality and Religion

Wonder Woman represents female empowerment and teaches positive female traits such as honesty and kindness, and has inspired women over the years to believe in themselves. Originally intended to be a feminist symbol, she represents a clearly stated message that women do not need men to be happy and successful. Whereas characters such as Batman, ...

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B.F. Skinner and Operant Conditioning

B.F. Skinner played a crucial role in the understanding of what has come to be known as operant conditioning. His experiments illustrated concepts such as reinforcement and shaping. Skinner illustrated the idea of operant conditioning through experiments involving animals. By putting an animal in a small cage, Skinner could affect the animal’s behavior by forcing ...

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Quotes on Reading and Reading Aloud

“A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.” ~Martin Tupper “A library is a hospital for the mind.” ~Unknown “If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson “My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I ...

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Shaping Behavior in the Classroom

B.F. Skinner (1904 – 1990) is considered by many to be the greatest behavioral psychologist of all time. He received his PhD in Psychology from Harvard in 1931 and following him was the development of the Neo-Skinnerian Model. Skinner did not personally concern himself with classroom discipline, but since the 1960s, his ideas have been ...

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Psychology Timeline: Psychology’s Early Major Contributors

Plato: (428/427-348/347 BC): Plato was one of Greece’s early philosophical thinkers. Plato insisted that the human mind was the base of all mental processes, and believe that ideas are innate to the human mind. That we are born with certain knowledge and thoughts. Aristotle (384-322 BC): Aristotle argued against Plato and debated that the heart ...

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Skinner’s Theory of Personality

B F Skinner held a strict behaviourist viewpoint and argued that if humans were to be changed, then the environment must be changed and not the “inner self” as other psychologists might advocate. Personality and Skinner’s Theory According to Skinner’s theory, individual differences in behaviour are largely the result of different kinds of learning experiences ...

Best Quotes for Graduation

You might be looking for something to put into a yearbook dedication, have engraved on a keepsake or write in a card. Regardless of what you need a quote for this graduation one of the following should be perfect for you. “Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.” – ...